honestly the degree to which I get so much more okay with people saying things in fandom when it’s stated as a preference rather than incontrovertible fact is kind of mind-blowing even to me
per that last post about headcanons it’s like. establishing your first principle that “yes this contradicts canon but I’ve decided to ignore that” is going to make me feel so much less inclined to get bitchy about something that feels like a willful misreading of the text
like, yes! this can be sort of frustrating and feel like you’re diluting yourself but honestly I think it goes a long way sometimes to just acknowledge that you’re having a specific type of conversation/approach rather than posing something as a universal truth presumed to be accepted without question
it’s also so much more refreshing and also important in creating a healthy fandom environment when people don’t pretend they are “fixing” the source material by coming up with reasons why their headcanons are superior to the canon either on a storytelling or a political level. headcanons don’t need to justify their existence by being either canon-compliant or better than canon, there is value in just being fun to the people coming up with them.
